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It looks like an alto sax mouthpiece and sounds like one too, it would be hard to use a clarinet mouthpiece on a carrot because the opening is much larger since it fits inside the clarinet body where the alto mouthpiece tapers down.

Saw this guy (I’m 99.998% sure) performing in Shizuoka some years back. Spoke to him afterwards, and apparently he makes wind instruments for a living, so you end up with a natural sense for where the holes need to go.

Having built a clarinet out of copper tubing as a physics project (I calculated where the holes needed to be drilled), and also having played the E flat clarinet (supranino), I can make these observations.

Drilling random holes in whatever cylinder isn’t going to make it in tune, and yes, the performance was in tune.

That was no clarinet mouthpiece, not even an supranino mouth piece.

That short of a cylinder isn’t going to play that deep. Up it an octave.